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Most pita breads are baked at high temperatures (450–475 °F (232–246 °C)), which turns the water in the dough into steam, thus causing the pita to puff up and form a pocket. [26] When removed from the oven , the layers of baked dough remain separated inside the deflated pita, which allows the bread to be opened to form a pocket.
Laffas for sale at the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem Sabich wrapped in laffa. Laffa is known as Iraqi pita, given its origin in Iraq. [3] Members of the Jewish community of Iraq, almost all of whom emigrated to Israel in the mid-20th century, brought with them the standard Iraqi flatbread known as aish tannur, (ḵubz al-tannūr, خبز التنور), or simply khubz (bread). [6]
Sabich or sabih (Hebrew: סביח; Judeo-Iraqi Arabic: صبيح) is a sandwich of pita or laffa bread stuffed with fried eggplants, hard-boiled eggs, chopped salad, parsley, amba and tahini sauce. It is a staple of Israeli cuisine and was created by Iraqi Jews in Israel in the 1960s.
A flatbread is bread made usually with flour; water, milk, yogurt, or other liquid; and salt, and then thoroughly rolled into flattened dough. Many flatbreads are unleavened, although some are leavened, such as pita bread. Flatbreads range from below one millimeter to a few centimeters thick so that they can be easily eaten without being sliced.
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Among the breads popular in Middle Eastern countries are "pocket" pita bread in the Levant and Egypt, and the flat tannur bread in Iraq. The oldest known kind of bread, found by archaeologists in the Syrian Desert (modern-day southern Syria and northern Jordan), dates back 14,000 years. It was a sort of unleavened flatbread made with several ...
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The McArabia is a pita bread sandwich available at all McDonald's outlets in Arab countries and Pakistan.It is known as the Grilled Chicken foldover in Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa, [3] as McOriental in Spain, France and Holland, [4] the McTurco in Turkey, [5] Greek Mac in Greece and Cyprus, [6] [7] and as the McKebab in Israel. [8]